Patricia Chuchland is a well-known philosopher, who was one of the first to combine neuroscience and cognitive science with philosophical questions.

She states that one should need an understanding of the brain to understand more about the mind. Neuroscience and cognitive science are continually unraveling more and more about our brain and the way it works. This forces us to think again about concepts such as free will, moral or consciousness.

In one of her latest books, Braintrust, Patricia Churchland states that our moral is a product that has been produced by the biology in our brain. This means that our moral is an effect of our well-developed social need to survive.

What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think is not produced by an immaterial mind, but by electronic and chemical activities that take place in our brain?

Read the report: http://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/terugblik/terugblik-2015/terugblik-2015/terugblik-churchland/info/report-the-brains-behind-morality-lecture-by/

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